MI for Change: Motivational Interviewing in ABA & Mental Health

About MI for Change: Motivational Interviewing in ABA & Mental Health

MI for Change is the podcast dedicated to exploring Motivational Interviewing (MI) in behavior analysis and mental health. Hosted by Dr. Monica Gilbert, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Licensed Psychologist, this show helps professionals transform client conversations — one question at a time. Each episode delivers: ✨ Practical MI strategies you can apply immediately in sessions ✨ Real case examples that bring concepts to life ✨ Inspiring interviews with experts across ABA and mental health Whether you’re an ABA practitioner, therapist, counselor, or student, you’ll discover how simple shifts in communication can reduce resistance, strengthen rapport, and spark lasting change. Because parent coaching and client conversations don’t have to feel like a struggle — they can be the spark that makes transformation possible. Subscribe today and join the journey to becoming a more effective, confident, and client-centered communicator. This is MI for Change.

Publisher

Monica Gilbert

Category

business · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Sept 2025

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   When MI Doesn't Seem to Work — Diagnose the Conversation, Not the Parent

   Share Your Thoughts With Us I teach motivational interviewing. I speak at conferences about it. I train clinicians on it. And there was a session — early in my MI practice — where I walked out thinking: this stuff doesn't work. The parent had nodded through the whole conversation. Agreed with everything. Said all the right things. And I knew, the moment it ended, that nothing was going to change. In this episode Dr. Monica Gilbert gets honest about what that moment felt like — and more import...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   When a Family Just Got a Diagnosis — Your First Job Isn't What You Think

   Share Your Thoughts With Us You walk in with your clipboard. Your intake paperwork. Your assessment tools. Your predetermined questions and your full plan for the session. And you look at this parent. They're answering you. They're being cooperative. They're signing the consent forms. Saying yes to everything. But they're not really there. In this episode Dr. Monica Gilbert — recording live from the FABA conference in Orlando — talks about what she's learned about the moment a family receives...

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   BCBA Parent Session Anxiety: Why Confidence Isn't the Problem

   Share Your Thoughts With Us Have you ever sat in your car before a parent session, rehearsing the whole conversation in your head? Deciding what to cover first, what questions to ask, how to respond if the parent brings up that one thing? It's not because you don't know what you're doing. It's because parent sessions feel unpredictable. And unpredictable is a very specific kind of uncomfortable. In this episode Dr. Monica Gilbert names the word she hears from BCBAs over and over — not hard, n...

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